Present participle of adulate; the act of praising someone excessively or insincerely.
The -ing form of adulate, indicating an ongoing or continuous action.
An 'adulating crowd' or 'adulating courtiers' appears throughout literature as a stock image of corruption and loss of individual thought—writers use the word to show people abandoning honesty.
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